Secure Kubernetes Platform Engineer | LSRE Expert

Leidos Inc; Morgantown (WV); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Kubernetes Platform & DevOps Engineer to design, build, automate, and sustain secure container-based platforms across on-premises, disconnected/air-gapped, and hybrid-cloud environments. You will work with developers, systems/network cybersecurity personnel, and platform architects to establish standardized baselines and deployment patterns informed by LSRE.

You will implement IaC automation (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python) and manage services like MinIO, Istio, Kafka,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps/platform engineering or related senior role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in enterprise environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Knowledge of security, networking, and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, automate, and support the lifecycle management of enterprise Kubernetes clusters and containerized application platforms.
• Engineer secure, repeatable Kubernetes environments for development, integration, test, staging, demonstration, cyber testing, and production use.
• Implement, integrate, and sustain LSRE-based platform capabilities and standardized secure runtime configurations for application teams.
• Design and maintain reusable Kubernetes deployment patterns using containers, Helm charts, operators, manifests, configuration management, and Git-based version control.
• Integrate and operate platform services including MinIO, Istio, Kafka, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL; establish patterns for availability, persistence, backup/recovery, upgrades, security, and observability.
• Develop automated provisioning and lifecycle-management solutions using Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python, or equivalent technologies.
• Implement container image management, registry integration, image scanning, signing, software supply-chain controls, and repeatable release processes.
• Design secure Kubernetes networking including ingress/egress, load balancing, DNS, network policies, segmentation, service discovery, TLS, and Istio-based service-to-service communications.
• Build and maintain development and system-integration laboratories, including isolated or disconnected environments used for software development, regression testing, cybersecurity testing, hardware integration, and customer acceptance testing.

Skills

Kubernetes

DevOps

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Bash

Python

Git

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Leidos seeks a Kubernetes Platform & DevOps Engineer to design, build, automate, and sustain secure container-based platforms across on-premises, disconnected/air-gapped, and hybrid-cloud environments. You will work with developers, systems/network cybersecurity personnel, and platform architects to establish standardized baselines and deployment patterns informed by LSRE.

You will implement IaC automation (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python) and manage services like MinIO, Istio, Kafka,